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If it turns out that this doesn't belong to anybody I could use a rear only......front is a pretty new VT already. Cheers

Plastic garage floor tiles, way better than working on concrete!

I used to work in rallying, it was a couple of years break from the engineering that I normally do in industry. We ran the work's Group N Evos for Ralliart which was good fun. One of the guys on the team went to F1 and is now front jack at Red Bull, stands in front of the car as it comes into the pit box at 60mph, waiting with a sack barrow to lift it up.........nutter! He's a damn good spanner though, best I ever worked with and fully deserving of his place on the world champion's car.

The main exchanger box from a 96 Passat fitted straight into my car and connected to the various Corrado ducts. I did have to cut and drill more holes in the bulkhead to fit the heat exchanger in but it was straightforward. I also had to fit an automatic flap into the dash centre ducting that the Corrado doesn't have. I've done the wiring two times now, first time was with the original wiring loom and more recently with the OBD2 install.

If you're fitting climatronic into an LHD car with existing factory fitted a/c then it would be worth dropping a line to krnau in Barcelona as he did exactly the same install.

Sensors on front and rear axles continuously measuring pitch of car and adjusting headlamps up and down to maintain dip.....possibly a little tricky to install??? To stick to the letter of the law a car with HID headlamps has always needed self levelling and headlamp washers, apparently it will soon be part of the MOT. Of course you can buy HID lamps for mountain bikes nowadays and set the beam anywhere you like!

You will also of course need self levelling and that's a whole different ballgame to retrofit!

The suspense is killing me!

Very clever!

There's only one brand that any self respecting Corrado owner should consider!

PM replied to, tax disk holder posted!

I guessed this would be the way I ended up doing it! I left the brackets on the car anyway so had to use a pry bar to get the beam back in, I just wondered if there was a consensus over what angle to fix the beam into the brackets at, torqued up with the beam at horizontal leaves them around 7 or 8° away from the number in the manual so what's it written for? Cheers for the reply anyway, think I'll just tighten them up and get on with something else!!!

Congratulations to all of you Jay!

If you'd like it I have an original Merlin tax disk holder. They're my local dealer, still there but part of Gilders now, and supplied my old valver.....I must have replaced it with a CCGB one at some time before I swapped it for the VR in 2000. PM me your address and I'll stick it in the post.

I think I'd be stripping all the unused wires out all the way back and then just looking for a multi pin plug with just enough pins to do the job. It's the small jobs like that which make it look finished! I expect it's easy to forgive the car anything when you get on the gas with that motor though, I have the same engine in my TT and love it!!!

Picture 4, that's horrible.................with a capital HORRIBLE!!!!!

A question to those who've fitted rear beams, when did you torque the mounting bolts? Maybe I'm reading this wrong but to me the manual says two different things......on the attached extract from the manual I've clouded the two bits that I'm looking at. One states that the mounting brackets are installed at 12°30’ ± 1° to the beam. The other states that the bolts are tightened with the beam at horizontal, but I've measured the angle of the brackets in the car and they sit at 20° so what's all this 12°30’ ± 1° about, why such an accurate measurement for installing them if you're simply going to tighten them up at some other angle? Or am I missing something? P388.pdf

Got the freshly powder coated rear beam back in with it's new bushes and brake lines. Feeling good as it seems like months since I've bolted anything on, it's always taking things off and adding to the shopping list!

It's the full Thule setup, looks like it has roof rails but the pieces that run front to back are supposed to clamp inside the door frame too and fix the rear bar. I still use them but clamped into the rear window rubbers because it lets you get the rear roof bar further back. It's over complicated and you don't really need the front to back bars but I didn't know that when I ordered them! The photo might make it clearer.

It tugs a bit if you forget they're up there and throw it too hard into a corner!

We bought our first Corrado, a 1990 16V in 95 when we already had two kids, one at four years and the other at two years so used a booster seat and a baby seat. We swapped that car in 2000 for the VR6 we still have now. From 95 to 05 it was our only car so fetched timber from Wickes on the roofrack, went to Ikea for flatpack furniture, took everything to the tip which needed to go and took a family of four on holiday a few times in between. We attended our first CCGB meet at Brooklands in 96 with a boot full of bags, pushchair etc as we were on the way to the south coast on holiday! I have personally never understood why people say they need a four dour car once they have kids, it always seems such a squeeze getting babies in and out of car seats through those tiny back doors? Since retiring the C as regular everyday bus to weekend car and currently restoration project we've had such sensible family cars as a MkIII GTI an Audi S3, a MkIV R32 (all 2 doors) and currently a MkII 3.2 TT which after much soul searching we chose over a Porsche 911 as it has a hatchback and is therefore more practical! Both the girls have their own cars these days (one a Leon and the other a Lupo) but we have on occasion all squeezed into the TT!!! We did around 50K miles in the valver and have currently done 80K in the VR6, all pretty much trouble free. I'm sure we'll start racking that up again when the VR is back on the road hopefully some time next year but probably the year after! Not many photos of it loaded up although there is one that I guess I've posted before when discussing roof racks!

For the first CCGB meeting at Brooklands (25/08/1996) we were on our way from Chesterfield to Bournemouth in our first Corrado, G43 KUH, for a family holiday so attended with two kids and a car filled with bags, push chair and buckets & spades! You can see me and my oldest daughter in the second photo next to the centre car, fourth row. She was 6 at the time, now 21! The kids loved playing in the planes and with the Brooklands cat......a cat which later went on to trash Jeremy Bromley's tent and finish his day off in fine style considering he arrived on the back of an RAC transporter due to a seized gearbox in his G60(?)

Yesterday for a change I didn't add anything to my ever increasing shopping list. I took the rear coilovers off, stripped everything and wire brushed the rather grim looking threads, checked that the platforms do still move (a bit!) and then coated things up with ACF50 and rebuilt them. Today my dad collected the parts from the powder coaters that he dropped off for me a week ago....cheers dad! Rear beam, both front crossmembers, bottom arms and anti roll bar, £50, most impressed, there'll be some more parts to drop off soon at those prices. The pictures aren't great because it's cold and dark outside so I wasn't hanging about but everything looks better than new!

Only the rear beam this week, all the other bits came out last weekend! Car's currently sat on four axle stands with the engine on another pair of axle stands and a block of wood! Thanks for the heads up on the bushes, they're ordered and should be here this week, needing all the front bushes plus various bolts I've had destroy getting them out....one of the rear disk backplates virtually disintegrated as it came off today! I also had a worrying leak from the steering rack last week which looks expensive, I have a spare hanging up in the garage but not sure how good that one is either....can't be too much to rebuilding one if the seals can be found I'm sure.

Spent the day pulling and tugging the rear beam out then stripping it down ready for blasting and powder coating. Loads of seized bits, rusty bits and bits that'll need replacing.....I can feel a big shopping list approaching! Ended up with a big pile of bits to drop in at the powder coaters tomorrow!